Telegram-herald., 1887-12-19
STRAY 6iTS.


Ruby l. Paradise is the name OF postmas.
ter at Concordla, Kan
A single day of heavy fog makes the city
of London pay $40, ,0o0 more for gas.
The Russian government is pushing rail-
road across Siberia with great energy
The United States sends ], ,ooe, 600 barrels OF
apples every year 10 foreign countries
Fifteen young Moors from Morocco have
gone to Italy 10 study in the military
colleges.
A German tourist has just cncircled the
globe at a cost of els0, and the voyage took
1s5 days.
A social philosopher forcsees the day when
the primary school desk will be supplied with
typewriters instead of writing books.
Sir John Lubbock, in his lecture on
"Savages," says that the negroes never kissed
until they were taught by the white people.
Queen Victoria is going To institute an
order of literary merit, consisting OF twenty
knights, fifty knights champions and 100
champions
China has at the present time l 500 tenn
Piles to the honor of CoEfucous, at which
62,600 pigs, rabbits, sheep and deer, and
1900 pieces of silk are offered annually.
The largest electric light in the worid is in
the lighthouse at Sydney, Australia. 1t hss
the power Of ls0, ,0o0 candles, and can be seen
at sea fifty miles distant. Americas largest
light, 1000 candle power, is at San jose,
Cal
A butter dealer recently sold quantity Of
bad butter at a residence in indianapolis
When he next returned be was invited in.
he entered and was seized by the inmates,
stripped OF all his clothing, and buttered
from head to foot with his rancid wares.
The petritied remains of huge monster
have been discovered near Knoxville, Iowa.
The body was between fifty and sixty feet
long, with head almost four feet long and
two and a half feet wide, with four eyes.
The sockets of the eyes are eight inches in
diameter
A manufacturer in New York state is en-
gagged in drafting design for car 10 be
made entirely of wood pulp. 1t win be light.
cheap and indestructable by fire or collision.
If il should be thrown Off the track it would
simply bound into the air and settle down
into its place.
Sebastian Muller, Swiss. lately arrived
in New Haven, Conn, is astonishing the
Yankees with his feats Of strength He is 25
years old, 5 feet inches tall, weighs q
pound and half less than 200. is magnifi-
Gently developed as TO muscle. and can break
n six-inch cobble stone with ono blow OF his
fist
OF the .406 students Of Michigan univer-
sity, it is stated by President Angel that the
parents Of 502 were farmers; Ill merchants
o3 lawyers: So physicians; SO manufacturers,
81 mechanics, and 81 clergymen. He esti-
mates that as many as - per cent. belonged
to the class who gained their living by
manual toll.
Kangaroo leather has become so decidedly
popular for shoes that 600 skins are re-
cieved aad tanned il Newark, y. j., alone
each week But that means most of the
skins used, for they are sent al over the
world from the Jersey tanneries. One result
Is that kangaroo hunters in Australia are
making money They get 20 cents pound
for skins. and some of them clear from 1900
to s., 600 year.
San Francisco justice Of the peace for
mulated an oath for Chinese witness like
the following: II swear by TIC Chinese gods,
foreigners god, the God Of heaven and earth,
that IL am liar in this case my head will
be cut of the same az this chickens head is
cut OF, and that | viii be drowned in tho
ocean and never get back to China,n and
while repeating the oath the Chinafnan held
a cleaver in his hand, with which b. severed
A chickens head from the body when hs
finished tho words.